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The majority of Qashqai people were originally nomadic pastoralists and some remain so today. The traditional nomadic Qashqai traveled with their flocks twice yearly between the summer highland pastures north of Shiraz roughly 480 km or 300 miles south and the winter pastures on lower (and warmer) lands near the Persian Gulf , to the southwest ...
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Qashqai (قشقایی ديلى, Qašqāyī dili, pronounced in English as / ˈ k æ ʃ k aɪ / KASH-ky, and also spelled Qaşqay, Qashqayi, Kashkai, Kashkay, Qašqāʾī [2] [3] and Qashqa'i or Kaşkay) is an Oghuz Turkic language spoken by the Qashqai people, an ethnic group living mainly in the Fars province of Southern Iran.
Khosrow Qashqai (Persian: خسرو قشقایی; c. 1921 – 1982) was an Iranian politician and a Qashqai tribal leader. Qashqai was a secular nationalist, and an opponent of Pahlavi dynasty . Historian Mark J. Gasiorowski describes him as "very pro-American".
Qashqai or Qashqay may refer to: Nissan Qashqai, a compact crossover SUV; Qashqai people; Qashqai language; Hoseynabad-e Qashqai, village in Tehran Province, Iran; Qashqay (village), a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
It is native to Fars province in southern Iran and is associated with the Qashqai people of that area, particularly with the Dareshuri tribe for which it is named. It may also be known as the Shirazi after the city of Shiraz, the provincial capital. It is an endangered breed: a population of 300–400 was reported in 2003.
Ismail Khan Qashqai (Persian: اسماعیل خان قشقایی) was a Qashqai chieftain in 18th-century Iran. He was the son of a certain Jani Agha, whom he succeeded as chief of the Qashqai tribe. He was executed in 1779 by the Zand prince Ali-Morad Khan Zand, and was succeeded as chieftain by his only son, Jani Mohammad Khan.
Operation François was an attempt made by the German Army's Abwehr to use the dissident Qashqai people in Iran to sabotage British and American supplies bound for the Soviet Union. [ 1 ] Operation François was led by Otto Skorzeny , who sent the 502nd SS Jäger Battalion to parachute into Iran during the summer of 1943, the first mission ...